Submission Guidelines

• Your prose or poetry work must be based on the theme Scared of You! however you choose to interpret that.
• Tell us your tale in 1,000 words or less.
• Double space between paragraphs.
• Send as a *.doc or *.txt attachment. Do not attach anything but the story.
• You must include the following information on your attached document:
  1. Your real name.
  2. Your Renderosity nickname (if you have oneit is not necessary to be a Renderosity member to participate in this contest).
  3. Your email address.
  4. If your computer is a PC or Mac.
• Winners will need to provide us with a mailing address.
• Do not insert html formatting.
• Email your entry to: editor@renderositymagazine.com

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  Contest Rules:

• Contest Theme: Scared of You! Only one entry per author. Enter a short prose piece (fiction or nonfiction) or poem which illustrates the scary theme.
• Contest begins Monday, July 19, 2004 and ends Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004, at Noon Renderosity Server Time [Central Time Zone].
• Winners announced: Aug. 26, 2004 on the front page of The Renderosity Interactive Magazine.
• Who may not enter: members listed as judges or current Magazine Staff, and Administrators. You do not have to be a member of Renderosity or a RIM subscriber to enter.
• Very Important: your story/poem must be a new work, not previously posted online, in your gallery, or anywhere else publicly.
• Entries must not appear online anywhere during the contest or until the contest winners have been posted. By entering into the contest, the poetry and short story winners agree to not publish their stories until 90 days after the publication of the Sept/Nov Issue of the RIM [due to be published mid-September].
• No sexual or extreme violence. Stories/poems must be suitable for all audiences.
• Only one entry per author is allowed (even if you have multiple email accounts, only one entry per person).
• By uploading your prose or poetry, you are declaring that this is your original work. (Contest winners will be required to sign a statement verifying this.)
• By entering the contest you are giving The Renderosity Interactive Magazine permission to publish your short story or poem if you should be declared one of the contest winners [with the exception of the Random Drawings].
• Authors will remain the intellectual property holder of their entries.
• The decision of the judges is final.
• The RIM Writer's Contest is sponsored by The Renderosity Interactive Magazine [The RIM].

Very Important

• To enter this contest you must submit your entry via email: editor@renderositymagazine.com[see above under rules/guidelines].
• Submitting your entry via email will enable the writers of the non-winning entries to retain their non-published status of their story/poem.
• Please DO NOT submit your entry to the upload area!
• Entries will ONLY be accepted by email submission.